scoffing
adjective
[ ˈskɒfɪŋ ]
• contemptuously ridiculing or mocking someone or something.
• "a scoffing cabin crew tells her there's no shower on the plane"
scoffing
noun
• contemptuous ridicule or mockery.
• "he had to overcome the scoffing of theoretical physicists"
scoff
verb
• speak to someone or about something in a scornfully derisive or mocking way.
• "Patrick professed to scoff at soppy love scenes in films"
Similar:
mock,
deride,
ridicule,
sneer at,
be scornful about,
treat contemptuously,
jeer at,
jibe at,
make fun of,
poke fun at,
laugh at,
scorn,
laugh to scorn,
dismiss,
pooh-pooh,
make light of,
belittle,
taunt,
tease,
make a fool of,
rag,
thumb one's nose at,
take the mickey out of,
poke mullock at,
make sport of,
fleer at,
bite one's thumb at,
scout at,
take the piss out of,
Origin:
Middle English (first used as a noun in the sense ‘mockery, scorn’): perhaps of Scandinavian origin.
scoff
verb
• eat (something) quickly and greedily.
• "he can scoff a cannelloni faster than you can drink a pint"
Similar:
eat,
devour,
consume,
guzzle,
gobble,
wolf down,
polish off,
finish off,
gulp down,
bolt,
put away,
nosh,
get outside of,
pack away,
demolish,
shovel down,
stuff (down),
stuff one's face with,
stuff oneself with,
pig oneself on,
pig out on,
sink,
gollop,
shift,
get one's laughing gear round,
gorb,
scarf (down/up),
snarf (down/up),
inhale,
ingurgitate,
Origin:
late 18th century (as a verb): originally a variant of Scots and dialect scaff . The noun is via Afrikaans from Dutch schoft ‘quarter of a day, work shift’, (by extension) ‘meal’.
